※ 引述《kimisawa (杨回血了。)》之铭言:
: 亚马逊公布了兽人的造型
: https://i.imgur.com/ZoKatBI.png
: 惊不惊喜?意不意外?都是白皮肤耶
: 该抗议 white washing洗白吗?
: 这么多元包容怎么不多种肤色?
半兽人的来源,我查英文维基,
其实有写托尔金对半兽人外貌、生态有很详实的描述。
Tolkien proposed several semi-contradictory theories for the origins of orcs.
In The Tale of Tinúviel, Orcs originate as "foul broodlings of Melkor who
fared abroad doing his evil work".In The Silmarillion, Orcs are East
Elves (Avari) enslaved, tortured, and bred by Morgoth (as Melkor became
known);they "multiplied" like Elves and Men. Tolkien stated in a 1962
letter to a Mrs. Munsby that Orc-females must have existed.[18] In The Fall
of Gondolin Morgoth made them of slime by sorcery, "bred from the heats and
slimes of the earth". Or, they were "beasts of humanized shape",
possibly, Tolkien wrote, Elves mated with beasts, and later Men. Or
again, Tolkien noted, they could have been fallen Maiar, perhaps a kind
called Boldog, like lesser Balrogs; or corrupted Men.
Half-orcs appear in The Lord of the Rings, created by interbreeding of Orcs
and Men;[T 12] they were able to go in sunlight.[T 7] The "sly Southerner" in
The Fellowship of the Ring looks "more than half like a goblin";
similar but more orc-like hybrids appear in The Two Towers "man-high, but
with goblin-faces, sallow, leering, squint-eyed."
托尔金对兽人的起源提出了几个半矛盾的理论。在 Tinúviel 的故事中,兽人起源于“
在国外从事邪恶工作的米尔寇的邪恶后代”。 在精灵宝钻中,兽人是被魔苟斯奴役
、折磨和培育的东精灵(阿瓦里)(米尔寇成为已知);[T 9] 他们像精灵和人类一样“
繁殖”。托尔金在 1962 年给曼斯比夫人的一封信中说,兽人女性一定存在过。在
Gondolin Morgoth 的陨落中,魔苟斯通过魔法使它们变成了粘液,“从地球的高温和粘
液中培育出来”。或者,它们是“人性化的野兽”,托尔金写道,精灵与野兽交
配, 或者再一次,托尔金指出,他们可能是堕落的 Maiar,也许是一种叫做
Boldog 的物种,就像较小的炎魔一样;或堕落的人。
半兽人出现在《指环王》中,由半兽人和人类杂交创造; 他们能够在阳光下行走
。魔戒中的“狡猾的南方人”看起来“比半像妖精”;[T 13] 类似但更像兽人的
混血儿出现在《两座塔楼》中,“人高,但有着妖精的脸,脸色蜡黄,斜视,瞇眼。”
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实际上这一段描写得很像蒙古人。
而实际上,托尔金在私人信件上有写过对半兽人的描述。
"squat, broad, flat-nosed, sallow-skinned, with wide mouths and slant eyes: in
fact degraded and repulsive versions of the (to Europeans) least lovely
Mongol-types."
矮胖的、宽的、扁平的鼻子、浅黄色的皮肤、大嘴巴和斜眼:实际上是(对欧洲人来说)
最不可爱的蒙古人的退化和令人厌恶的版本。
简单的说就是托尔金把魔戒当成欧洲人起源神话写,
而蒙古人因入侵欧洲(黄祸),所以他直接把蒙古人形象拿来当半兽人素材。
所以半兽人应该不是白皮肤的,
而是该长得像亚洲人、黄色肤。